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A113 % J B Ck I.H Leons A113 % j B ck i.h Leons / 1 * 7 0 P ' c b . i z - SCRAP BOOK FOR SCRAPS, PHOTOS, NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS, ETC. Ref. S 2 0 9 3C2319 MANUFACTURED IN R.S.A. P.A VERVAARDIG IN R.S.A. Mrs. N. McCormack (seated at the table) washes the sheets from, her bed in the little handbasin in the “RUB-AND-SCRUB” APPEAL corner of her room and. dries them over Mr. S. Greenbergs heater in his room down the corridor. So \ she. was delighted to hear Laundry a problem from the Mayoress of Jo­ hannesburg (right) that “Meals on W heels” will I start a free laundry service for the aged. And while for the old folk Mrs. Lewis was telling them of the new scheme, Mrs. I. Saintey (left), a “Meals on CLEAN SHEETS for her bed are a serious problem for old Mrs. N. McCor­ W/heels” worker, was dish­ ing up their meal for the mack. She lives alone in a little room without a servant and without day. money for laundry. She can have clean sheets only when she washes them herself in her tiny handbasin. it is to help people like her t that “ Meals on Wheels ” are to j run a free laundry service for Miss Kathleen pensioners—at the suggestion of ! the Mayoress of Johannesburg, Brabazon dies j Mrs. Doris Lewis. Even taking sheets off a bed at 84 isn’t easy when you're old, slow . Miss Kathleen Brabazon, the { and alone. And not even the fit- first receiver of the Gold Medal ) test young housewife could wash Award of the Johannesburg Col­ j sheets in a handbasin without a lege of Education, died at the age struggle. of 84 at the Johannesburg General Hospital this week. ONCE A WEEK Then, Mss. McCormack has ^ still to dry the sheets—over a Miss Brabazon, a niece of the But there are ■women who j Irish poetess, Susan Mitchell, was badly need it, too. j heater in a friend’s room. “I'm a pioneer in creating libraries at The free “rub-and-scrub” -ser­ 1 lucky,” she says. “It’s a lovely Johannesburg Government vice will have a pool of bed linen big heater.” Washing would be : schools. and will exchange clean sheets stolen before it was dry if she | She was born in Ireland in for soiled once a week. But 1885 and came to South Africa in before it can start, more than i hu»g it in the busy yard outside 1921 with an M.A. degree and a ] R1 000 is needed. : her room. Silver Medal from Trinity College The Mayoress has launched an A free laundry service “would ! in Dublin. ! appeal for funds to start the ser­ vice. A collection will be taken be a very big uplift for me,” she She taught English for 10 years tomorrow night at the football ; said seriously. "I do like a clean each at Jeppe Girls' High School match between Highlands North i bed.” and Parktown Girls’ High School. ! and Durban Spurs at the Rand During her career at Jeppe, Miss Washing is a problem for all Stadium. Other cheques may be old people living alone. Servants Brabazon started the school’s sent to “Meals on Wheels library by putting up bookshelves may take R12 a month out of a Laundry Service.” Mayor's Office. R32 pension. Dishonesty may cost at the back of the school hall. ; City Hall, or to Box 1049, Johanl them more. During the war, when male There are many frail old people teachers were few', she taught at for whom bed linen is just Jeppe High School for Boys. She 1 too much trouble. They then taught at the Speech Ther- do without it. They sleep, like ! apy Department with Miss. Muriel neat, clean old Mr. Jackson, on " i Alexander. 9 ] grey - with - dirt * blankets and She retired from her post at brown-with-age pillows. Old men Forest High School in 1935, but are the ones who usually have continued to teach temporarily at j most difficulty with washing. various schools. ^ _ ' 5 r n R «««» &®smse8smsgmsmxsaKm Mr S Farah, secretary of the Transvaal Association of Coloured Teachers, presents a cheque to the Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. Patrick Lewis, for victims of the Boland Disaster Fund. With them is Mr. E. Eachells, an executive member of the association, which has now contributed R2 425 to the fund. Clean sheets appeal: good response AN appeal by Mrs. Doris R2000 for Lewis, the Mayoress of Johannesburg, has already brought in R1013 for a laundry service for the paraplegic aged. This is about one-third of the money needed to start a service which will bring centre clean sheets to Johannes­ burg’s old people every MR. NEIL GILLIS, chair­ week. man of the Southern Trans­ “Meals on Wheels” will vaal region of the Para­ run the service which will plegic Games Association, have a pool of bed linen and today gave R2 000 towards each week will exchange the building of the South clean sheets for soiled ones. African Mandeville Centre About 200 old people need for the disabled. the service. Before receiving the gift at a ceremony in the Johan­ Johannesburg citizens have nesburg City Hall, Mr. sent in donations totalling Ernest Erling, president of R890 in the past week. the South African Mande­ Another R223 was collected ville Centre, showed the at a football match on Fri­ Mayor, Mr. Patrick Lewis, day. and Mr. Gillis, the plans for “Thank you for a wonder­ the R100 000 project. ful response,” said Mrs. The R2 000 given by the Lewis. Southern Transvaal region She is depending on pub­ of the Paraplegic Games lic donations to raise Association is to go towards enough money to start the the building of the club­ laundry service. house. “We will need at least R3 000,” she said. g r a f t _________________ Mrs. Karin Kiesling, a window-dresser at a Johannesburg departmental store, admires a statue of Dr. Chris Barnard sculptured by the Spaniard Juan de Alvos. The statue is one of the items on exhibition in the city. GLITTERING TRIBUTE TO BARNARD ""I\ o - TROPHIES, GIFTS aiid medals given to Prof. Christiaan Barnard from colleagues and admirers all over the world, will he shown in the basement of a large departmental store in Johannesburg from today. The exhibition was opened ' yesterday by the Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. Patrick Lewis. It is being held by the Chris Barnard Fund for Research in Heart Disease, in collaboration with the store and two pharma- j ceutical laboratories. Among the items shown a re , Doctorates of Science awarded by several American universities! and the Pahlavi University o f1 Iran. Also on display are medal- j lions from medical societies, j including the South African j Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Albert Einstein College of Brazil, the New York Cardiologi­ cal Society, and the Pasteur Institute of France. PROMINENT A piece of the tree of Hippocrates awarded by Prof. Thomas Doxiadis of the Athens University Medical Faculty, and the Gold Medallion of Hippo­ crates awarded Dr. Barnard in France, are prominently dis­ played. There are also valuable gifts from grateful parents of Dr. Barnard’s child patients, as tvell j as the keys and the honorary citizenship of various cities. Mrs. M. E. Poolton, organizer of the Chris Barnard Fund, says Dr. Barnard believes his heart j transplant team deserves these ; trophies as much as he, and that | he has accepted the gifts for all | ‘ its members. j The exhibition was first held in | ! Cape Town in May, 1969. It was! then taken to Beaufort West, Dr. j Barnard’s home town, and to ! Pretoria during the Medical Samn S ' m i ? : snaredfiS/Z/pOj nis1 . slice o f bread The Mayor-elect of Johannesburg, Mr. Sam Moss, at his Observatory home with his wife and three sons (left to right) Stafford, Hilliard and Russel, recently. NOW CITY GIVES HIM THE JOB OF FIRST CITIZEN ships in Mayfair, is proud that H Bv a Staff Reporter he once scored the highest i THE boys squatter] on the marks among English children pavement lining a humble Hard days in the Transvaal for an Afri- 1 Mavfair Street. They talker] kaans examination. This was in : the high school entrance exami- ,1 in both English and Afri­ nation before the w-ar. | kaans and took bites in turn He said he had never ceased from a slice of bread pro­ in humble to wonder at the Afrikaners’ vided bv the. one called Sam. economic progress or to admire Bread obtained outside nor­ their interest in education mal meal times was a luxury he “They have always attached liked to share with his friends, Mayfair great importance to learning for it was the time of the great because they knew that they a depression and bellies were Although always keen to be a could survive only through seldom comfortably filled. lawyer, Mr. Moss was deviated education.” As they talked of the things by family persuasion into the He believed, he added, that j small boys always talk about, pharmaceutical business. He and bilingualism was essential for a '< they did not dream that Sam his brother became pharmacists man in public life. He was glad ; was to become first citizen of and their sister kept to tradition that he could share the Afnka- , their city. Nor did they think by marrying a member of the ners’ culture and enjoy their about race; and they spoke in trade.
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